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Denbighshire Yeomanry (Hussars) Territorial Force: 1/1st Battalion, Denbighshire Hussars 2/1st Battalion, Denbighshire Hussars 3/1st Battalion, Denbighshire Hussars    The Denbighshire Hussars Yeomanry was a territorial unit, part of the Welsh Mounted Brigade. The 1/1st Denbighshire Hussars served in Egypt and was converted to become 24th (Denbighshire Yeomanry) Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers in February 1917. The 2/1st Denbighshire Hussars was formed in 1914 and served with the 2/1st Welsh Border Mounted Brigade in a Home Defence and training role until late 1916 when it converted to become the 3rd (Denbigh and Montgomery) Yeomanry Cyclist Battalion. The 3/1st Denbighshire Hussars was formed in 1915 and was disbanded in early 1917, the troops transferred to 24th and 4th (Reserve) Battalions, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. 4th Aug 1914 Mobilization 16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme 1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets 11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment 10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens 9th February 1916 Call Ups 1st Sep 1916 Garrison Duty 7th Sep 1916 Recconaissance 10th Sep 1916 Posting 11th Sep 1916 Patrol 15th Sep 1916 Duties If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about the Denbighshire Yeomanry (Hussars)? There are:6594 items tagged Denbighshire Yeomanry (Hussars) available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. Those known to have served with Denbighshire Yeomanry (Hussars) during the Great War 1914-1918. Bloor William Henry. Capt. (d.3rd Jan 1918) Clarke John. Pte. Ellis John. Pte. 1st Battalion (d.12th Oct 1916) Lloyd Norman Lewis. Cpl. 1/1st Roberts Robert. Cpl. 17th Btn. Rooper William Victor Trevor. Capt. (d.9th Oct 1917) Rowlands Henry. Pte. 24th (Denbighshire Yeomanry) Battalion (d.19th July 1918) All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please. Add a Name to this List More Denbighshire Yeomanry (Hussars) records. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. 1st of September 2024 marks 25 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time. Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the Great War? Our Library contains many many diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. 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If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 264989 your submission is still in the queue, please do not resubmit. Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to the Great War. If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great battalion regiment artillery Did you know? We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. 252084 Pte. Henry Rowlands 24th (Denbighshire Yeomanry) Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers (d.19th July 1918) Henry Rowlands enlisted as a private soldier into the Denbighshire Hussars Yeomanry (Reserve Regiment) at Eccleston Camp on 17th of Sept 1914. He then transferred into the 24th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers. Henry died on 19th of July 1918 in the 2nd Australian Casualty Station from a gunshot wound to his left groin after running to the aid of a friend who had also been shot. He is buried in Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, in France. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Never Forgotten. R.I.P Steve Hughes Add to this record. 241740 Cpl. Robert Roberts 17th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers As far as I can ascertain my father, Robert Roberts, was serving with the Denbighshire Yeomanry at the outbreak of WW1. At some point thereafter he became involved with 17th Royal Welsh Fusiliers and in September 1917 was reported as having been wounded in action. He survived the war but never talked to me about his service nor the severe wound he suffered in combat. How I wish I could talk to him now about his experience, which I am fairly certain involved his presence at the Third Battle of Ypres. Robert Roberts Add to this record. 220528 Cpl. Norman Lewis Lloyd 1/1st Denbighshire Hussars My Uncle, Norman Lewis Lloyd, joined the Territorial Unit 1/1st Denbighshire Hussars as a private in 1914, service number 504, date unknown, later transferring to 5th Batt. Royal Welch Fusiliers, service number 345088, who were in the Welsh Border Mounted Brigade, which in September 1914 was attached to the 1st Mounted Division. He was promoted to Corporal later. In 1915 the 1/1st together with the rest of the Brigade and the South Wales Mounted Brigade, became a dismounted unit. It is presumed that he was a member of the Territorial force before the commencement of the war as he was awarded The Territorial Force War Medal, 1914 – 1919, note page 21. Little is known about his wartime service except that he was in Egypt, and Palestine as a photo exists with him standing next to a Camel. Harvey Lloyd Add to this record. 213785 Pte. John "Nobby" Clarke Denbighshire Yeomanry John Clarke known as Nobby joined the Denbighshire Yeomanry with his cousin in 1913 as a territorial army private. It was the only way he could get time off from working on the farm, for a holiday. He took his own horse with him. I have been told that he taught men to ride horses in the initial stages of the war. He took his own horse to the war and brought it home with him at the end of the war. A lucky escape unless this has been changed over time and he brought a horse home from the war. He only returned home a couple of times as he could not face his mother and how upset she was at his returning to the war. He survived the war and only suffered a broken arm as a physical injury and shell shock. I have been told that he swam across a lake and freed some of his regiment who were captured. Helen Larkin Add to this record. 206208 Pte. John Ellis 1st Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry (d.12th Oct 1916) My great uncle enlisted in Bangor, North Wales into the 284 Denbigh Yeomanry. He had been working with horses on a farm in Anglesey, where his mother thought he was. It was not until she received the telegram to say that he had been killed did she know that he had enlisted. He died aged 22. As her first language was Welsh she had to take the telegram down to the village Post Office so that it could be read to her. Apparently her hair turned white overnight. Her other son was serving with the Navy. Whilst on deck one night during an attack he heard a voice telling him that he would survive the War but his brother would not. He had no idea that his brother had enlisted. After the war he became a lay preacher. At some time John changed his unit to the King's Shropshire Light Infantry 1st Batt. He was killed on 12 October 1916 during the Battle of Transloy attacking Zenith Trench. All this information came to light when I visited the Thiepval memorial. My sister and I were the first in the family to read his name on the Memorial. It is good to keep these names alive and to remember that these were real people. Sally Watkinson Add to this record. 205802 Capt. William Henry Bloor Royal Field Artillery (d.3rd Jan 1918) I am in the process of writing a history of the Denbighshire Hussars Yeomanry, pricipally during the First World War. William Henry Bloor was a Sergenat in the Denbighshire Yeomanry, before being commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery. As a Captain he was killed-in-action on 3 January, 1918. His father Reginald Henry Bloor or Rex Bloor also served in the DY. I am looking for any photos of Officers, NCOs and Men who served in the Denbighshire Yeomanry from 1900 to 1921. I gained my BA in History in 2003 and my thesis was on the DY. Any photos or stories which could be copied/photocopied would be of great help to me. Nick Peacock Add to this record.

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